Chemical Reference Resources.Chemistry, like many other scientific disciplines, is blessed with a myriad of resources on the World Wide Web. While these may never replace such handy desk-books as the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics for much of our day-to-day design work, it certainly saves us countless anxiety-producing freeway drives to the university library for special projects and in-depth investigations. For broad-based knowledge searches, the virtual library route is a good starter. There are two very good ones for broad-based searches. The first is Chemical Engineering at http://www.che.ufl.edu/WWW-CHE/index.html. An excursion there yields a bevy bevy a flock of birds. of sub-topic links from analytical methods to water technology. Included are links to safety and software resources, nuclear and transfer technology, standards, design, and modeling. Chemistry at http://www.chem.ucla.edu/chempointers.html provides an extensive array of links (mostly unannotated) to chemical resources on the Web, academic institutions (worldwide, by country, from Australia to Uruguay), and non-profit organizations A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. . Included in the latter are sublinks by discipline into the American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has over 160,000 members at all degree-levels and in , chemical societies worldwide, and specialty areas like coatings, electrochemistry electrochemistry, science dealing with the relationship between electricity and chemical changes. Of principal interest are the reactions that take place between electrodes and the electrolytes in electric and electrolytic cells (see electrolysis), as well as the and catalysis catalysis Modification (usually acceleration) of a chemical reaction rate by addition of a catalyst, which combines with the reactants but is ultimately regenerated so that its amount remains unchanged and the chemical equilibrium of the conditions of the reaction is not . There is also a large list of links to commercial concerns, software providers, consultants and publications. A unique service available here is a section ( under "Other Chemistry Services") providing hot link access to Chemistry Gopher Servers, Chemistry FTP Sites A server on the Internet that maintains files for downloading. An FTP site may be one or more servers or just one or two folders dedicated to file transfer on a single server. See FTP and anonymous FTP. (including a Macintosh chemistry software archive), and more than 15 USENET and news group resources dealing with various chemistry topics. I'm a strong believer in using Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) whenever exploring new areas or topics. The best engineering-oriented one I have found in the discipline of chemistry is Internet Resources for Chemical Engineers at http://www.retallick.com/recources/ne tresrc.html. Cruise over there for such listings of resources as chemical databases (DECHEMA, CHEMSAFE, and MSDS--Material Safety Data Sheets), simulators and software (Visual Math for Java, ASCEND modeling, plant optimization and process integration), directory information and job searching links. Also available are journal article links, access to professional organizations, government and academic links and company Websites. A good corollary site if you're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. high-powered researchers is the chemistry department site at the University of Patras University of Patras (Greek: Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών Panepistimio Patron) is a university located 7 km northeast of downtown Patras, 3 km S of the Rio-Antirio bridge, 206 km W of Athens, in Greece. Find it at http://www.chemeng.upatras.gr. The links accessible from "news"/"rankings" provide a search gateway to work done in the 1994-1995 timeframe by universities around the world. Universities are ranked by number of papers published, faculty size and year. These are all searchable parameters. Moving to utility specifics, Web Elements at http://www.webelements.com/ at the University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield is a research university, located in Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. Reputation Sheffield was the Sunday Times University of the Year in 2001 and has consistently appeared as their top 20 institutions. lets you print out a current version of the periodic table in .pdf format. It also lets you click on any elemental symbol and link to key data, classification information, designation and isolation. The "notes" section has links to further information on related topics at other servers worldwide. ChemFinder at http://www.chemfinder.camsoft.com provides you with a gateway to commercial storefronts, databases (ChemACX, ChemIndex, and ChemRXN), FAQs, downloads and plug-ins. It includes fee, demo, and subscription software. The working demos include Chem Info Pro (searches 200 chemical catalogs online) and Chem Info Std (WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. chemical searching). Both are available as Web trial versions. For human and bibliographic resources, the Chemistry Index at http://www.claessen.net/chemistry is one of the best of its kind. It offers commercial software and the ChemStarter discussion forum, but that is just the tip of the iceberg tip of the iceberg n. pl. tips of the iceberg A small evident part or aspect of something largely hidden: afraid that these few reported cases of the disease might only be the tip of the iceberg. . The main attraction is more than 100 free databases including UnCover (searches over 15,000 journals from 1988 onwards), ChemFinder (the forms-based version for searching compounds), MedLine databases, and topic gateways from Acoustic Material Property Tables to the WWW Chemical Structures Database and the X-Ray Crystallography X-ray crystallography, the study of crystal structures through X-ray diffraction techniques. When an X-ray beam bombards a crystalline lattice in a given orientation, the beam is scattered in a definite manner characterized by the atomic structure of the lattice. database. Chemsoc: The Chemistry Societies Network at http://www.chemsoc.org is another valuable resource with a comprehensive directory of societies and educational resources, including an online discussion group. You can also find funding resources for students and researchers, chemical hazards information, modeling links and a "science park" of products and services. For fun (and possible enlightenment) take a lighthearted light·heart·ed adj. Not being burdened by trouble, worry, or care; happy and carefree. See Synonyms at glad1. light trip to the Periodic Table of Comic Books. By going to http://www.uky.edu/holler/periodic/ periodic.html, you can absorb the legacy of Iron Man, search biographies of Classics Illustrated back to the 1940s, and find out how chemistry has provided more than a few yuks over the decades. |
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